Display-stand.



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DISPLAY STAND. APYLIUATION FILED MAY '1, 1906.

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DISPLAYSTAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed May 7, 1906. Serial No. 315.586.

To (Jl/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM I. HOLLINGER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Stands g and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. My invention relates to display-stands, has for its'object the exhibiting of wall-paper, carpets, and the like which are put up as samples in the form ofla book for con venience in handling; and the invention consists in certain improvements in construction, which will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a display-stand embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section, partly in elevation and Fig. 3, a longitudinal transverse section of one of the book supports 'on an enlarged scale. y

Reference being had to the drawings and the designating characters thereon, the numeral 1 indicates a pedestal, 2 the column thereon having a socket or cavity 3 in its upper end to receive the cylindrical pin 4, on which the table-top 5 revolves. The tabletop is preferably hexagonal, but may be made to present as many sides 6 as are de sired, and is provided with radial cleats 7 to stiffen the top and prevent warping.

A retailers book is formed of a wooden leaf or back 8, near the upper and lower ends of which are transverse bars 9 on the rear side of the back and secured thereto in any preferred manner to prevent warpingof the back, and a like loose and detachable clamping-bar 10 on the front of the leaf or back, and bolts 11- 11, extending through the upper bar 9. The samples or sheets of wall-paper 1.2 and the bar 10 are provided with thumbscrews 18, by which the sheets are securely clamped to the leaf or back.

In forming a book the retailer selects sam ples from the stock carried on his shelves and arranges them artistically with reference to a proper blending of colors and iigures, and the books are attached to the tabletop by hooks 14 and eyebolts 15. From the under side of the table-top extend stays or bars 16, which rest upon buffers 16 for suparm 19 of a bracket 20, secured to the column 2, while the inner end of the bar 17 is connected to the slot 21 in the bracket 2O by a pin 22 to slide therein as the bar is drawn out or returned to vary the angle of the book to get the best advantages of light on the samples. The bracket is secured to the column 2 by screws 23 or in any preferred manner.

rlhe salesman takes a position near the display-stand and revolves the table-top with its suspended books of samples and eX- hibits the samples by turning them leaf by leaf and throwing them up on the table, and as one book has been used it is returned to its normal position and another book brought into use until the purchaser has made a selection of the paper Wanted.

On the upper side of the table-top are knobs 24, on which the salesman may suspend books of manufacturers samples over the books of samples carried in stock.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A displayfstand comprising a revoluble top having a plurality of sides, a plurality of laterally-swinging leaves detachably connected to the top adjacent to said sides and provided with a transverse clampingbar for securing articles thereto, and means secured to the pedestal and common to all of said leaves for projecting and supporting the leaves and the articles at an angle to the perpendicular as they are rotated in position opposite said means.

2. A display-stand comprising a revoluble top having a plurality of sides, a plurality of laterally-swinging leaves detachably secured to the under side of the top adjacent to said sides by hooks and eyebolts and provided with a transverse clamping-bar and bolts eX- tending through the leaves at the upper end for securing articles thereto, means secured to the pedestal and common to all of said leaves for projecting and supporting the IOO leaves and the articles at an angle to the per- In testimony whereof I aix my signature pendicular as they are rotated in position opin presence of two Witnesses.

osite said means, and proj eotions on the u 3- ,l Y* v T s ger side of the top adjacent to and betwen ADAM P' HOL-Llhh" 5 the ends of said sides for suspending articles over said leaves and the articles secured thereto.

fitnesses FRANK NAGLE, J. J. SCULL. 

